"Tell you what, boys," said Dabney: "next time we come out we'll bring a hammer and nails, and some oakum, and I'll calk up that old punt

Our fowling, our hunting, our punt-shooting (pastime for Hymir himself and the frost giants)our golf and skating,our very cricket, and boat-racing, and jack and grayling fishing, carried on till we are fairly frozen out.

She could punt, play tennis, dance, sing, and make her own blouses; in a word, a "ripper," "top-hole," and no mistake!

Are there not many stars still beyond our horizonlights that are known only to the dwellers in the far south-land, among the spice-trees of Punt and the gold mines of Ophir?" There was a murmur of assent among the listeners.

He accepted her proposal, and we had the satisfaction of seeing the light punt put off from the shore opposite to that from which we were idly and uselessly looking on, and go gallantly over the surging torrent toward the sinking men.

His sister, too, "kept her own," and the little punt shot out rapidly into the comparatively quiet stream, beyond the influence of the fearful current, which was rapidly driving them upon the breakers.

The moment they got into a less rapid current, which, they knew, led into comparatively still water they ceased rowing, and allowed the punt to float down with it.

Reaching the Murrumbidgee, they found that river flooded, and after waiting three days for the water to fall, they crossed it borne on the body of one of their carts, with the wheels detached, and with the aid of the tarpaulin, rigged like a punt.

The Surveyor-General, Colonel Freeling, immediately started out, taking with him both a boat and an iron punt with which to float on these new waters.

An attempt to float the punt was made, but after dragging it through mud and a few inches of water for a quarter of a mile, the men abandoned the attempt as hopeless.

But as it is, there isn't a player there that can be depended on to punt twenty yards if pushed.

And each time by hook or crook, by a short, weak punt or a clever, dashing run around end, did Hillton win back a portion of her lost territory, only to lose it again at the second or third attempt to advance the ball.

The captain smiled as he watched him prance down the field after a punt, never content to be there in time, but always striving to get there first, and not seldom succeeding.

The field followed him at a distance, and the most he could hope for was a touch-down near the corner of the field, which would require a punt-out.

Now some hoary grey tower stands out against the intense brightness of the western sky; now a tracery of fine trees shades for a time the dazzling light; then suddenly the fiery furnace is revealed again, reflected perhaps in the waters of some stream or amid the reeds and sedges of a mere, where a punt is moored containing anglers in broad wideawake hats.

The lands of the gods and the eastern lands of Punt

The man was wading in the water with a towing-rope over his shoulder, and the boys were in the punt plying their boat-hooks against the rocks and the bed of the river.

So will I." ... "Don't forget to book the big punt," said the Siren an hour or so later.

Under an over-hanging bush was a punt, and in the punt were Augustus and the lady known as Mrs. Harris.

Under an over-hanging bush was a punt, and in the punt were Augustus and the lady known as Mrs. Harris.

We know that in Egypt inheritances descended in the female line, as in the case of the Princess Karamat; and since we know of the great architectural works of Queen Hashop and her journey to the land of Punt, we may reasonably assume that the women of ancient Egypt had their share in all the interests of life.

He's come to see their newts; they had a lot yesterday at the bottom of the punt.

Laura spent many happy hours with Liz and the Mortimer children, now huddled into an old tub of a punt, eating cakes and curd for lunch, now having a picnic in the wood, and boiling the kettle out of doors, and at other times welcomed into the long loft called "Parliament;" but she seldom saw John Mortimer himself, for Lizzie was always anxious to be back in good time for dinner.

I speak never a word; but I rise up hastily, and, letting my novel fall heavily prone on the pit of its stomach at the punt-bottom, I take a flying leap to shoretoward shore, I should rather sayfor I am never a good jumperTou Tou's lean spider-legs can always outstride meand now I fall an inch or two short, and draw one leg out booted with river-mud.

"We'll dine at the Toison d'Oran excellent little restaurant overlooking the river; and if you're fond of angling, we can hire a punt and catch our own fish for dinner.